I think it would also be interesting to have an ESL convention in China for Dave's posters, or not.

Either way the data will be interesting, sorry if I missed a major location that should have been included as a separate region.

Comments welcome especially about the choices offered, I tried my best to arrange them by region but also somewhat by what I perceive to be the lifestyle offered. Trying to organize China into workable regions for a poll was a lot tougher than I'd imagined.

I don't know why you have Sichuan, bordering Tibet, aligned with Hainan island, floating in the south china sea/Gulf of Tonkin...

It's a fair question and my only answer is that I perceive these 3 provinces (Sichuan, Yunnan and Hainan) to be a kind of back country tourist-leisure zones with reasonably low pay. A lot of foreigners go here for travel, few get a chance to work here. (With 32 respondents zero have selected this region).

Sichuan and Yunnan are definitely SW China and GD is definitely SE China. Guangdong/xi seem like the east/west split in the south. Lots of people work in Sichuan, and the pay is not that bad. I will vote now, so we have one for Sichuan.

Sichuan and Yunnan are definitely SW China and GD is definitely SE China. Guangdong/xi seem like the east/west split in the south. Lots of people work in Sichuan, and the pay is not that bad. I will vote now, so we have one for Sichuan.

While GD is definitely SE China, I think it would have enough differences in itself to qualify for it's own region and I expected a lot more votes for what I assume to be a heavily populated area with FTs.

While GD is definitely SE China, I think it would have enough differences in itself to qualify for it's own region and I expected a lot more votes for what I assume to be a heavily populated area with FTs.

I wouldn't agree with that anymore than for any other Chinese province. What are the differences that qualify it for its own region?